3. Mission
UK Museum Crawl 2002
The Galleries display the most
comprehensive collection of British
design and art on view anywhere in the
world.
(BTW - The V&A is the greatest museum of
applied and decorative arts in the world.)
According to them…
7. Cool Britannia
UK Museum Crawl 2002
This exhibit is quite possibly the most
outstanding I have seen, ever
•Incredible exhibit design (form, layout,
colour, fabrication)
•Very simple and clever interactives
•Appealed to families with children under
12
•Only art/dec arts museum I have ever
heard people squealing with glee!
35. Text Panels
UK Museum Crawl 2002
These big panels are
standard
•note simple
design…
•It does rather
blather on and on
though
•There were lots of
these throughout
65. Books
UK Museum Crawl 2002
These will last
forever too
•Each page
screwed into round
“rotator”
•All mounted on a
shaft
•Arranged to avoid
pages binding
66. Drawing Drawers
UK Museum Crawl 2002
Open
•Good way of
displaying multiple
flat items
•Could work for
comics...
89. Discovery Rooms
UK Museum Crawl 2002
3 found within space
•Many activities grouped together
•Dress up
•Computers
•Hands On
•“Pick a Box”
•“What is it?”
90. Discovery Room 1
UK Museum Crawl 2002
First found behind armour in this view
91. Discovery Room 1
UK Museum Crawl 2002
Overall views
•Note see thru vista
at armour
97. Discovery Room 1
UK Museum Crawl 2002
Parts stow away nicely (and people do
so!)
98. Discovery Room 1
UK Museum Crawl 2002
Weaving interactive
•Aimable light on post
99. Discovery Room 1
UK Museum Crawl 2002
Write a saga - staff collect, edit,
laminate, display
100. Discovery Room 1
UK Museum Crawl 2002
Activity Boxes
•Each room has a
stack of these
•Each small activity
different
•Could work in our
history kits
101. Discovery Room 1
UK Museum Crawl 2002
Activity Boxes
•Each includes materials and instructions
102. Discovery Room 2
UK Museum Crawl 2002
Overall view - with computers and “What
is It?”
122. Light Sensitive Cabinet
UK Museum Crawl 2002
Only one of these
•Open up doors
•Push button to turn
light on
•Lights goes off
when doors shut
•Never seen
something this
slick!